Twin Cities Daily Planet

Volume I of a collaborative series with the Twin Cities Daily Planet dedicated to the legacy of Prince, featuring artist Mike Queenz.
"Prince was a very clear statement for a lot of queer folks. He was able to be that thing and embody this, I don't know this energy that so many people have pent up inside or can't express... Whatever it is, society doesn't want to accept queerness, especially when it's coming from black people, or masculine folks. I think Prince was just that thing, that epitome of what it means to be a carefree, queer, black, genderbending person." –Mike Queenz
Video shot and edited by Ryan Stopera
Original song "Currency" written by Mike Queenz
Instrumental production by Yon Legend

Deadline to apply is 11:59 p.m., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and two to three (2-3) samples of your writing and/or editorial work to jobs@tcdailyplanet.net.

Fat people do not need anyone’s body policing, and telling a fat person to lose weight or live healthfully is not helpful. The unsolicited “advice” is passive aggressive and hurtful. The actions and mistreatment is bullying.

Pedestrian advocates are stepping up to create new city policies that will improve not only transportation infrastructure, but the very thinking that goes into street design. For the first time, pedestrians and their needs will be put above people in vehicles.

When queer communities complain about the “corporatizing of Pride,” they often mean they don’t want to see businesses like Target and Car2Go having large displays at the festival and floats in the parade, when department stores and car sharing have nothing to do with queer pride or resilience within heteronormative patriarchy.

Two years ago, founders of St. Paul's East Side Freedom Library founders Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff opened the doors to an institution that is changing what a library can be and can do for community.

The hardest part of trying to do intersectional work for me, as an Anishinaabe woman, is that most people–even most people of color and other oppressed peoples–know so little about Native people. I had a lot of difficulty recently when someone (a respected changemaker) tried to tell me her opinion on why Native people don't have it that bad, when no part of her opinion was based in truth. It is hard to not feel resentment when people bring huge, common misconceptions to the table: of rich Indians, of free college and casino money.

Taking a class with Cow Tipping Press was the first time Rob Bergerson had ever tried his hand at poetry–let alone read it aloud—which he did, at one of Cow Tipping Press’s public reading events. The reason he’d never done these things before was not, he said, because he didn’t think he could do them. He could. It was simply because until then, he hadn’t had an outlet.

Nine thousand three hundred and twelve: the number of adults, youth and children in Minnesota who were living without a home on Oct. 22, 2015, as part of a one-night statewide Wilder Research study to better understand homelessness. In 2012, it was estimated there are over 40,000 people in Minnesota who experience homelessness over the […]